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From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: bin/2692
To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:25:59 -0500 (EST)
Cc: henrich@msu.edu, mpp@freefall.freebsd.org,
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In-Reply-To: <199702230722.XAA25824@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Feb 22, 97 11:22:20 pm"
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> Synopsis: Find is busted
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open-closed
> State-Changed-By: mpp
> State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 22 23:15:51 PST 1997
> State-Changed-Why:
> Duplicate of PR# 1910.  However, in this case, find is
> doing as it should: reporting "expoitable" file names that
> would have been handed off to xargs.

this is bogus!  On half of my systems I get three thousand lines everytime the
damn thing runs, obscuring the daily reports.  There should be a way to tell
find to shut the hell up.  Its not an "illegal" filename, because you can
create (anyone can create it!) on the filesystm.

-Crh

       Charles Henrich     Michigan State University     henrich@msu.edu

                         http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich